Cavscout74

I never said it made sense. If it weren't for the fact that some people will believe it, it would be funny

They do, but it costs money and its not causing me any actual problems, so it's not worth it.

I enjoyed Star Wars: Galaxies but when it closed & SWTOR came out, it didn't impress me. Fast forward to January, and I was getting a little tired of just KSP, and missed playing an MMO since Wildstar shut down so I got SWTOR. I'm enjoying it, but it mostly feels like a single player game that happens to have other people running around. Not even finished leveling, so having to redo everything hasn't been a problem yet, but I can see they've done it a bunch in the past. One gripe - and I should've actually checked first rather than assume - I picked a European server because I work 2nd shift and most other MMO's I've played used different maintenance times for their European servers instead of ~9 - 11am EST, which wipes all my game time for a day. Unfortunately, SWTOR uses the same down time for all servers, so I still lose a day when they do maintenance.

That looks interesting, going to have to give that a look. I've been slacking on KSP lately. Been playing SWTOR some, plus a few games I've found on Steam: Titan Outpost, Astroneer, and ATOM RPG. Titan Outpost is pretty cool, but I keep running into walls to accomplish anything (like a resource you need to upgrade your base power plant can be found at a nearby cryovolcano, but the only thing I find there is a chunk of ice that I can't use for anything). Astroneer is like a cartoon version of No Man's Sky, but its not keeping my attention. ATOM RPG is like the Russian version of Fallout 1 and has been pretty fun so far although I find the controls a little clunky sometimes.

I think this is the comet from the latest social media conspiracy theory my wife showed me - the pandemic is just a cover to keep people quarantined and distracted so when the killer comet arrives, there is no looting in the streets before it wipes out all life on Earth. She asked what I thought, I said it doesn't matter - either its load of BS or I won't have to worry about admitting to her I was wrong

Just before the ban on dining at restaurants, for the first time in my life I had to wait to use the sink in a public restroom. Not only was everyone washing hands, they were actually doing it pretty much correctly. Considering I'm 45, that is pretty sad but at least it changed for this.

I've actually told my wife the "I have a larger chance of dying in a car accident coming home from work than I do from Covid-19" when she was worrying about me still going to work. Almost no one sits around thinking about all the risks they face on an average day - especially younger people. Probably anyone who did would need hefty doses of anti-anxiety meds to function. Everyone is scared of this because its new and its in the news 24/7. In the next year or two, when the new is gone and we're getting some natural herd immunity and hopefully a vaccine, I think we'll be seeing something more like the seasonal flu and it will just be one more thing on the long list of natural causes that kills people in their 70's and older. On an unrelated note, I'd really like to know why every single company I've ever purchased anything from feels the need to inform me of their Covid-19 plans. Seriously, if I ordered something from you online 8 years ago, I don't care how many times a day you are cleaning your physical storefront. I've never set foot in any of my credit cards corporate offices, so unless they are telling me I don't have to pay (and no interest) for the next few months, I don't care what they have to say either. (They didn't, so I don't) The only one that might have been useful was my gym (YMCA) that emailed to inform me their facilities will not be available during this crisis. No problem, I understand perfectly. But why are they still billing my credit card? And why is that not even mentioned in the email?

The cargo airline I work for went and did something proactive again. They already started having non-essential personnel work from home last week. Now they have sent letters out to all mechanics & flight crews stating they are essential personnel working for a cargo airline so everyone will have them ready as the situation changes, rather than trying to play catch up as different states & countries (we have several Caribbean flights in addition to US) are changing their restrictions on a daily basis.

On Friday, the first confirmed case finally showed up in my county. Here's the really bad part: it was in a retirement home, which had already been restricted to staff only for over a week. The news stub only said 150 tests were run on staff & patients but were waiting on results. I'm curious to see how many of those come back positive. I'm kind of assuming a staff member is a carrier - I know the incubation can be 14 days, but the average was around 3 days and I would expect someone in their 80's to show symptoms sooner than a much younger staff member. So I expect we will be going from 0 cases to double digits by the time the other tests come back.

Sad to say, I've barely played KSP lately. I made a little progress in my Out of the Sands career recently, but I've also been playing around a little with Titan Outpost which took up some of my KSP time

SXT had one, but I have no idea if there are RSS/RO configs for it.

First thing - the game keeps backup saves, so you could check them out to start with and see if they are ok. They are located in a subfolder of the save folder labelled "Backup" and will have several files "Persistent (date).sfs" which are your dated backup saves. If that doesn't help, you can manually edit the "persistent.sfs" file (MAKE A BACK UP FIRST!!!!!) to set their experience back to where it should be. Open in a text editor and search for the pilots' names (one at a time). I think experience is calculated based on their career log - which is a list of every flight they've been on and what major events occurred (orbited a body, EVA'd, planted flag, etc), will look something like: CAREER_LOG { flight = 74 1 = flight, Kerbin 1= land, Kerbin 1= recover 2 = flight, kerbin 2 = suborbit, kerbin 2 = orbit, kerbin 2 = land, Kerbin 2 = recover etc AFAIK, the game uses these events to calculate the experience. It could be as simple as something glitched in the transfer to 1.9 and it could be corrected. Alternately, there is a line in the kerbal's file "extraXP = 0" you could always just edit that, but then they might get more levels doing stuff they've already done.

That's what I've been hearing since the corona virus started making news. That's why I've not been too worried about the virus. Most of my concerns have been about the reactions of idiots who know nothing & can't be bothered to find out anything but rumors spread on facebook. Not that I particularly want to get it, I'm just aware I'm more likely to die driving home from work than from corona virus. I'm more concerned about my wife - long time smoker with early COPD, she may not fair so well. Which of course is a bigger reason to protect myself.

They'll certainly be more relaxed than the folks here panicing & scampering around trying to find toilet paper

Did you accidentally hit F4 - that toggles the target marker on & off. I've hit it by mistake (instead of quicksave) and didn't realize a few times.

So much for that - apparently half the office workers are "essential personnel." Sorta kills the plan of only 3 people working face to face at any time. I shoulda known that wouldn't happen. Ironically, most of the mangers did stay home, but half of everyone else that wasn't supposed to be in is working. The really funny part is our flight dispatchers are working 12 hour shifts supposedly to reduce the frequency of face to face interactions. It wasn't a great plan to begin with - they are still interacting with the same people twice a day, they just work fewer days and another group takes over the other days, plus they have no one to cover if anyone gets sick/injured for any reason. With dozens of people are still here during the day, it becomes totally pointless - the company might as well have done nothing.

Are either the servo or any parts that it is intended to move have autostruts?

Are you sure?

I did see one positive result of the outbreak: My wife & I went out do dinner Saturday (my county still has 0 cases and the 2 closest confirmed cases are an hour drive away). After dinner, I used the restroom and for probably the first time in my life, I had to wait in line to use the sink in a public restroom!!!! Not only was everyone washing their hands, they were actually washing - scrubbing with soap and hot water - not just splashing some cold water over them and grabbing a paper towel. Yay!!! In other news, my workplace is trying to be proactive - we are a regional cargo airline, and need to keep required personnel well. So for those of us working in company headquarters, they changed things so only essential personnel come to work, everyone else is to work from home. Obviously most of today was spent with people coming in to get their computers & whatever office stuff they will need, but from now on we will have just 3 of us working at any given time that are essential personnel (flight dispatchers & maintenance control - we're required to be able to work face to face). Considering my workplace is halfway to the closest confirmed cases and at least half the employees live further in that direction, I'm all for it. Now I'm just hoping all the managers & executives don't decide they are essential and come in. I can confirm they are perfectly capable of micromanaging from home just as well as they can in person, and almost all of them are closer to the confirmed cases as well. There's still the risk of someone catching it at home & spreading it before showing symptoms, but it at least keeps contact to a bare minimum.

They upgraded to a new version of unity with 1.8 and despite introducing a pile of new bugs - some fixed in 1.8.1, most of the rest in 1.9 I believe - it resulted in a game that runs smoother than it did in the 1.4 - 1.7 versions. I don't have any hard data to share, just my opinion that it loads faster and runs a little smoother. It's not a huge difference, but enough to be noticeable and enough to make me abandon a 1.7.3 career that was just getting kerbals to other planets in favor of the new version. And I know I probably could've moved the save over, but new major versions are usually my reason to start a new save. Does 76 really count though? I don't think I've seen a single positive word about it anywhere Kinda sad too, as I've played Fallout since the first one.

I don't know about that. I didn't lose any sleep over the NBA cancelling stuff, but then I saw that Formula 1 cancelled the Aussie Grand Prix and thought "OMG, they need to find a vaccine ASAP!!!!!"

The grocery store where my daughter works recently had to run off a guy from their parking lot - he had a trunk full of toilet paper and was calling people over, offering to sell it for $2 a roll. There are a lot of other things I would really wish happen to that guy (other than the store ordering him to leave their property), but I'm almost certain stating any of them is against forum rules. I will say people like that give the human race a bad name. Edit: And for what its worth, as of this morning the closest cases are still over an hour drive away from me.

I can see your reasoning - it would be nice to have a better Kerbol system whether they added other systems or not, in my opinion. I like the idea of new systems, but I wonder if its worth the effort. Everything I've seen about the KSP1 player base indicates only a small percentage (<10%) make it past the Mun. Unless substantially improved navigation & planning tools are available, I wonder what percentage of KSP2 players will ever see another star system? 1%?

Basically the plot of Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six novel. And anyone who's read that will wonder, if a Covid vaccine becomes available quickly - is it the "A" vaccine or the "B" vaccine?

Yeah, I had the misfortune of needing to stop at the local grocery store today - just needed a loaf of bread, as I ran out when I made lunch today. Now that all the toilet paper & hand sanitizer are gone, people are panic buying fresh meat. So maybe I'm really dumb here, but unless you have a generator to keep your freezer running, how are loads of meat going to help you if society self-destructs and the lights go out? And I'm guessing people standing in the middle of the store adding up on their calculator app to see if they can afford two packs of ground beef or three probably don't have a home generator. In comparison, the canned goods didn't look much different than any normal day. My daughter works at that store, and has told me not only are they out of all the panic buy stuff, their distributor is out as well and has no ETA on being restocked, so the only "disaster" so far is one created by scared people buying stuff that will likely go bad (except the TP) before it ever gets used. To put this in perspective - North Carolina is up to 17 cases today. The closest cases to me (just two, announced today) are an hour drive away, all other known cases are further away. I'm all for taking precautions to reduce the spread, but I wish people would actually think. Probably a waste of a good wish though, I don't think its possible on a large scale.